“Whenever we do book signings with our properties, we feel there’s a lot of demand for us explore different formats,” he added.Ankama has started to work with David Souillon, the author of “Maliki” – an Ankama comic web blog in which a young pink-haired girl, a comic book artist with a half cat alter ego, narrates her daily life – with an eye to creating a short-format digital animated series targeting platforms like YouTube or Vine.Īnkama also aims to launch “Chacha,” an online game turned licensing brand, as another ultra short format series. Ankama is also looking to turn graphic novel series “The Grocery,” a comedy about a Baltimore street gang, into a digital series, Fabre said. A young adult hybrid “City Hall’s” comicbook sold 150,00 copies. Ankama wants to take advantage of that and also serve an evolving fan-base: “Our community is ageing and looking for something new,” said Ankama communication director Linda Duchaussoy.Īt Annecy’s Ankama 2015-16 lineup presentation, Puech and Fabre screened an animation teaser for “City Hall,” which adapts its action manga comic set in a steam punk universe, where everything people write comes to life, and City Hall cops combat an evil genius. Pursuing this goal, Ankama’s 2015-16 slate adapts two edgier comic-books – “City Hall” and “The Grocery”- looks to create new platform ultra-short formats out of two more Ankama properties – “Maliki” and “Chacha” – and takes in Ankama’s flagship first animated features, ““Dofus-Book 1: Julith” and “Mutafukaz.”įocusing on young adult genre titles, Ankama’s comic books “have a community building behind then,” said Puech. He added: We want to take Ankama into TV, onto digital platforms – whether it’s YouTube, Vine or others – build up partnerships with broadcast networks like France Televisions and Cartoon Network, explore SVOD with Netflix, and slowly grow in the digital space… which is where our community is looking for content.” We want to build the animation studio as part of our full strategy,” said Puech. Ankama Animations, our animation studio, started in 2007. Early on we decided to be a trans-media company. We’re looking at putting this TV series into production next year or early 2017,” Puech commented.įounded in 2001, launching Ankama Games in 2003, Ankama Editions, a comicbook publishing house, in 2005, and Ankama Animations, a toon production house/studio, in 2007, “Ankama came from gaming. “’Krosmaster’ started as a physical board game concept and is moving into a boy action toy driven property. Board game is in turn a spinoff of Ankamas two most famous game brands, Dofus and Wakfu. “Muffin Jack & Jeremy” is created by Steak Collective and produced by Ankama Animation.Īdding to Ankama’s TV production heft, Lagardere Active, the expanding film/TV division of the French conglom, confirmed at Annecy that it will co-develop “Krosmaster,” a animated TV series spin-off of Ankama’s figure-based board game of the same name featuring arena warrior fights. Next up after “Abraca”in comedy production is “Muffin Jack & Jeremy,” which is scheduled for a 2016 production launch, Puech said.Ī 13-minute series for 6-11s about a top spy trapped in the body of a chocolate muffin with a cherry at its top, the wacky “Muffin Jack,” which recreates typical action scenarios to near surreal effect, has Muffin Jack and his friend Jeremy, a bakery store employee, kicking ass as they face off with evil creatures in town. “We’ve been focused on boy action or boy action with a comedy twist and we’d like to occupy a slapstick, wacky comedy space, which our community is eager about,” Puech said at France’s Annecy.
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